Re: Simple isearch concerns

[Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>]

>>>> isearch-beginning-of-buffer changes the direction to 'forward' 
>>>> because it makes no sense to keep it 'backward' - there are no 
>>>> matches before the first match.
>>>
>>> Are you excluding the wrapped-isearch use case?
>>
>> I replied to Gregory about this use case that it's less useful than to 
>> get ready to go forward with the next C-s.
>
> That might be your personal opinion, but it doesn't have to be everyone 
> else's.
>

I don't understand what the point is here.  If isearch-beginning-of-buffer 
is called, point moves to BOB, and isearch is restarted forward, which 
jumps to the first match.  That's what the docstring says: "Go to the 
first occurrence of the current search string."  That doesn't mean that 
wrapping isn't possible anymore, C-r C-r C-r (or just C-r C-r with 
isearch-wrap-pause 'no) works as usual.

If you do not change the search direction after moving to BOB, the result 
is not what you would expect.  For example, after C-r:

- with isearch-wrap-pause t, M-< tells you "failing I-search backward" 
even if there are in fact occurrences of the search string between point 
and BOB, and a second M-< will jump to the last occurrence in the buffer;

- with isearch-wrap-pause 'no, M-< jumps immediate to the last occurrence 
in the buffer.